Raijieli Daveua (born May 30, 1992) is a Fijian rugby sevens player. She was selected as a member of the

Fiji women's national rugby sevens team The Fiji women's national rugby sevens team represents Fiji at regional and international sevens tournaments. They have won three Pacific Games gold medals, two Oceania Championships, a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal a ...

to the

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Rugby career

Daveua also competed for Fiji at the

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. She won a bronze medal at the event. Daveua won a silver medal with the Fijiana sevens team at the

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. She also featured at the

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. Daveua was named on the bench in the warm up match against

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ahead of the World Cup. She was selected for the

Fijiana The Fiji women's national rugby sevens team represents Fiji at regional and international sevens tournaments. They have won three Pacific Games gold medals, two Oceania Championships, a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal a ...

squad to the

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in New Zealand.

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* * 1992 births Living people Rugby sevens players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic rugby sevens players for Fiji Fijian female rugby union players Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Fiji Olympic medalists in rugby sevens Fiji international women's rugby sevens players Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Fiji Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Fiji-rugbyunion-bio-stub